Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Caron - I'll have a think about that re debit card. I've always had to operate around the basis of my mother is very very "private" and it's so much so that she only lets me do a certain amount of stuff for her and know a certain amount of stuff about her. She'd be surprised that I know rather more than she's told me about some things. Will ponder it...

I know her tastes very well - but I don't have much idea about her as a person - and that's exactly how she likes it imo. She's a Scorpio - yep.....

pineapple

caronc wrote: »

Good morning everyone,
Raw and raining here this morning.
My rash has continued to "walk" so one side of my face resembles a pumpkin this morning:eek:,

Pics or it isn't happening :rotfl:
This morning I encountered the launderette owner while I was en route to the ATM so I could pay back the £20 I owed him. He was just popping out from the fish and chip cafe (which he also owns) next door and said he would leave the door open so I could leave it on a table. Which I duly did - along with a packet of biscuits for his trouble . There are many downsides to living here but security/low crime is one of the upsides. Some friends who live in a village near Bradford would be horrified. When they visited last Summer they were amazed when a neighbour spent a couple of days cleaning out his garage leaving a whole load of tools out overnight!
Picked up a block of marzipan to nibble at (cos I is greedy ) and a joint of pork with scrummy crackling to cook while on economy rate at dawn tomorrow.

pineapple

MrAPJI wrote: »

I'm off with Mary (my neighbour) to view an apartment. Her house is large and it's now a struggle to maintain. As she's well into her 80's, she's made the decision to sell-up and buy somewhere where there will be support if/when she needs it. I will be interested to see what it's like....

For my sins I was a sheltered housing warden for 3 years - since when they have generally tightened up on the nature of the support and the charges. Things to ask about include the nature of the support - ie on site staff or peripatetic staff?, morning call checks? visits? Plus emergency support such a pull cord//pendant alarms, intercom through to call centre? Plus the charges for these. Also any service charge for maintenance of grounds/communal areas..

caronc

pineapple wrote: »

Pics or it isn't happening :rotfl:

Not a hope, I don't "do" photos at the best of times never mind while I resemble something from a Zombie film:rotfl::rotfl:

MTSTM - hopefully you can sell the benefits (and savings - no more stamps to be paid for to send cheques!) to your Mum:)

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PasturesNew wrote: »

This is the trouble with any aspect of "caring" ... when they expect you to do it when they do it, how they do it .... not appreciating that you're doing it!

My dad used to get up the local paper shop for the papers first thing... once housebound I said I'd get them delivered .... I wasn't allowed, so then I had to get up early and get out there to get the papers at the same time ... even though the paperboy would've got them to us earlier! He begrudged the cost of delivery (pennies!! and you're about to die!!).

Logic doesnt come into it sometimes when deciding about spending.

Just sat through a meeting where someone was saying "We can't do that - it might cost more". The "that" concerned probably amounts to about 30p per week:eek::rotfl:. Ohmegawd the heavens will clearly fall in at the thought of all of 30p:rotfl:. I think they've "seen sense" on that....:cool:.

I think people have got different priorities and will spend-a-lot on some things because of "personal preferences" (even if they can't actually afford it). Others are just plain mean regardless...and would probably still be mean if as "rich as Croesus".

Have come to the conclusion that probably very few people sit down and logically decide:
a. What is "reasonable" to spend (rather than peanuts or "gold-plated or gold for the sake of being flashy")

b. Can they logically reasonably afford it?

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APJI
Hope your neighbour gets sorted out with what she wants for a "final home" okay. I'm sure you'll have lots of useful input to give. It can be so much easier sometimes when it comes to other peoples housing can't it? - and we've probably all made mistakes as to what does (or doesn't) work for us personally and so can maybe "see things coming" sometimes that others can't from a more subjective viewpoint.

Just thankthelawd that it's only one persons personal preferences/needs to take account of here - so it should be relatively easy to resolve satisfactorily. I still remember going out with my parents on "inspection visits" of property for later life many years back - and it never did get resolved and they remained staying in the same place (ie because a place had to suit both his and hers preferences - and it's somewhere "everyone else wants to be too" and that put the prices up, so some places that should have been affordable/might have coped with two peoples set of preferences weren't affordable after all).

moneyistooshorttomention

caronc wrote: »

Not a hope, I don't "do" photos at the best of times never mind while I resemble something from a Zombie film:rotfl::rotfl:

MTSTM - hopefully you can sell the benefits (and savings - no more stamps to be paid for to send cheques!) to your Mum:)

Caron - :rotfl::rotfl:. The stamps are a valid point to make to my mother. That - and she gets the address of my house wrong one way or another every single time (well - a lot of it is in Welsh.....so it's understandable). Long since got used to people keeling over at the end of the phone and saying "How do you pronounce that? How do you spell that?" about my address.....:rotfl:

Sorry about the effect this illness is having on appearance. Yep...I know some people would think we're daft to be bothered about appearance - but I've long had a suspicion that you and I haven't had too dissimilar lives in some respects - and we do care about things like that.

I stopped accepting "photo requests" a while back if I can possibly help it and a couple of my most recent photos are probably illicit ones taken without my permission from way back in my "political animal/activist" days. One of which will feature me having spotted the hidden police?/whoever? photographer and leaping up and down waving at them:rotfl:. Well I couldn't manage a suitable "salute" from that distance - they were going to such lengths to stay hidden:rotfl:- and I was determined to make it plain "I've seen ya - and I know you shouldn't be doing that"....

EDIT; You know you've gotten a little bit older/the confidence that people from your Home City apparently have LOL when these days you'd be walking over to the hidden photographer and challenging them about it....

Farway

Decided to walk to L's on way to volunteering. Car is OK but the day started fine & mild and I certainly need to do some walking, I use Runkeeper, surprised it clocked 1.7 miles, I assume it is accurate using GPS

L's provided the much needed salad top up after the snowed in days. Plus a pack of YS real, not "formed from" ham

Lunch was a some of the ham, with piccalilli in a sandwich. I've still got defrosted LO Xmas turkey to use, but the ham was just begging to be scoffed

Dinner will be one of my M & S offers, salmon with new spuds, broc & green beans. Looks nice, 330 calories and healthy stuff, plus saves me having to think any harder than setting nuke timer to 4 minutes

Money, these days there aren't hidden photographers from what I see, all out in the open, in uniform. But of course there are two sides now, cameras / video and sound recording also used by protesters, as discovered too late after shoving newspaper seller

caronc

Good afternoon,
Well the Christmas chocolates have been cracked open:(. I was given a box of these by my son http://www.laudenchocolate.co.uk/ . Definitely on the pricey side (don't keel over PN :rotfl:) and almost too beautiful to eat but oh my word are they delicious:D. They've been popped back in the cupboard out of the way so a) I don't mindlessly scoff them and b) I don't feel obliged to offer any visitors any;).

I definitely think anti-virals are wonder drugs, my rash has stopped spreading and the whole area is marginally less swollen, thank goodness as I have visitors this weekend:).

Lunch was a rather nice sandwich of smelly French cheese with the last of the coleslaw and a large tomato on the side. I can't say it was the most flavour some tomato but at least not "woolly" tasting like some you get. I'm still undecided re dinner tonight but I think it will going for an easy option again. Needless to say my meal plan for this week has now officially gone to pot!

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway wrote: »

Money, these days there aren't hidden photographers from what I see, all out in the open, in uniform. But of course there are two sides now, cameras / video and sound recording also used by protesters, as discovered too late after shoving newspaper seller

Well - if it's out in the open these days it's one blessing imo.:cool:

Not someone hiding some way away behind a bush with a telephoto lens or popping up in your face from behind a hedge in front of the window of a sitting room you're in at a meeting....

The worst one being when a young policeman I'd got my eye on (as in many years back thinking "He's rather nice - wonder if he's got a girlfriend" as I was getting positive vibes from him along those lines) - and at least he was open/honest I suppose - as he turned round to me and said "I can't go out with someone like you....":eek::eek::eek::huh::huh::huh::eek::eek:. Me?!!!! Law-abiding me that wasn't doing that much at all and didnt know he knew anything about me except my name?/etc/etc?:eek:. Coulda been a lot worse I guess....but that was quite a shock to be told that....when I was doing darn all imo....

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

Well the Christmas chocolates have been cracked open:(. I was given a box of these ....Definitely on the pricey side (don't keel over PN

I've never had "posh chocolates" and don't expect to ever have any.

In my book chocolate costs £3/Kg .... and "a treat" costs £6.50/Kg .... and "a special/annual/Xmas type of treat" costs under £8/Kg.

Those ones don't even dare to tell you the pack weight, so you can't work it out .... but I bet it's nigh on £100/Kg

I'd not dare eat them .... and what if you hated them??? How sad would that be???